Engulfing Hunger

Few demiplanes are as alive as the Engulfing Hunger. This massive, 50-mile diameter demiplane in the Deep Ethereal is controlled by a single primitive intelligence that seeks to devour anything and everything living that comes within its borders. It has the intellect of a canny predator, and those travelers that have escaped the Engulfing Hunger with their life claim the demiplane enjoys toying with its victims. Beyond its ethereal curtain, visitors are greeted with a lush landscape of tropical jungle, but no birds or natural critters can be seen or heard.

When the Engulfing Hunger moves to strike it uses the trees and even ground to swallow victims, pulling them down into the heart of the demiplane where it crushes them with stones and digestive acids. The demiplane can manifest extensions of itself to chase and drive targets into specific areas, all the while the sky darkens above and the face of the alien entity can be seen looming like a god. Why would anyone visit the Engulfing Hunger? Some are pushed into it by an ether cyclone or stumble upon it by mistake, but others seek it out deliberately. Rumors persist that a rare and potent flower grows in the Engulfing Hunger’s jungle interior with powerful restorative capabilities. The exact nature of those capabilities hasn’t been documented but it seems to respond to the needs of the person who eats it.

Is this a lure by the Engulfing Hunger to draw fresh victims into its mass? Or is it a natural byproduct of the demiplane’s existence? For those that need the flower in the heart of the Engulfing Hunger, the answer is irrelevant.